Driving to Alaska

Need to clarify for the folks that have never been up there. Packed snow is very smooth to drive on. In the summer that road has holes that can swallow a honda.

 

Sounds like a large part of the roads in the lower 48. Husbands truck sounds like a buckboard. The GW bridge has holes big enough to break springs.

 

Im sorry to learn about the GWB. In my day they kept it NICE. But I guess raising all that toll money did nothing for it.

 

I haven't been across the gw in almost ten years. Maybe longer. Think it was 33 bucks the last time i paid that toll. They still haven't fixed it?

 

Its about a hundred bucks cash price now. They've improved it quite a bit. I don't go that way often either but I did last Saturday night going to Boston. The Bronx section of 95 still has a few coffee spillers.

 

$100 last year when I crossed it. Like taking candy from a baby right? Lotsa traffic for all the trouble too lol.

 

Best of luck to you & safe travels

 

For us to run a team it means another owner operator has to be willing to get out of his truck and into another for driver pay only (about 20% of the billed amount). While the hop aboard driver doesn't rack up expenses on the fuel and maintenance side, the clock is still ticking on weekly fixed costs. Normally team runs are quick 2-4 day round trips.

 

Ya in your situation it didn't make sense. The only way it would is if you had a retired family member that kept his cdl current. Add him to the insurance, spend a hundred bucks on a prehire drug test and roll.